The law sunsets a loan program for graduate students and makes short-term workforce training eligible for Pell Grants.

Plans for an 18-story apartment and 24,000 square feet of live performance space in downtown Berkeley have been scrapped.

Details on the crash and the identity of the pedestrian, who police said "died shortly after the collision," were not ...

What started as an online debate is now a nationwide festival — and Oakland is hosting the next stop in this culinary showdown.

The closure follows months of complaints from neighbors and businesses, a contentious town hall and a federal lawsuit.

Stark racial and geographic disparities in mental health, toxic exposures and life expectancy are among the findings of a new ...

Fishing off the Berkeley pier. File photo: Dorothy Brown This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Contaminants known as “forever chemicals” have been ...

Berkeley Food Network volunteers packing crates of vegetables at its Ninth Street warehouse. Credit: Shoey Sindel Correction: Due to an editing error, a previous version of this story referred in the ...

Both sides of the debate are expected to mobilize supporters to make their case at Monday’s meeting. At its center will be a remade City Council that will have to decide what, if anything, it can ...

Efforts might help with fire insurance City fire officials hope defensible space work, along with other fire safety measures, will have a knock-on effect of a more bullish insurance market. Like many ...

When Sophia Johnson and her husband, Tyler Troy, were expecting a third child, their friends suggested names like “Grizzly” and “Third Street.” Though the couple understood that such suggestions were ...

Where downtown once buzzed with construction workers building hundreds of new apartments, today there is not a single housing project under construction in the city’s core. “The busiest block in the ...